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As part of our pre-event interviews we bring you an exclusive interview with the manager of Danish giants - NoA. Martin "guddo" Cording spoke to us to tell us his predictions and thoughts about the WCG 2006 Qualifier and Finals:

What are your thoughts on your nationalqualifier and the upcoming WCG 2006 Finals?
The national qualifier could have been better, lots of heatand limited amount of space. We are looking forward to the finals in Monza,at the moment we are preparing with an intense bootcamp towards making the bestresult possible.

What have the team done to prepare for the finals?
As i said, we are bootcamping - literally untilthe plane leaves :)

Who do you consider to be your major rivals?
NiP, wNv and Hacker

Do you think there will be any upsets this year?
Hopefully not, but we all know CS and events - everythingcan happen.

Who are your Top 3 for the event?
1: NiP, 2: Hacker, 3: NoA.

Any last words?
Thanks to all those who are supporting us, we will do thebest to represent Denmark.Would like to thank Kappa, SteelSeries and CS-Hosting.

I was surprised to see that NoA feel that Hacker and wNv pose more of a threat to them than perhaps hoorai or 3D. Although the asian teams are growing in strength, they have not proved themselves in European tournaments yet. Apart from that, it is good to see a team like NoA not getting ahead of themselves and only predicting themselves the number 3 spot when they are capable of taking the top prize.

All that said and done, good luck to the Danes in Monza!

Remember, the event starts on the 18th October (Wednesday) and HLTV.orgwill be bringining you ALL the matches and ALL the coverage so be sureto check out our very own WCG 2006 Finals page which can be found here.